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Ask HN: Whats your best workflows to draft legal agreements without lawyers?

6•philippb•14h ago
I just got an insane bill from a lawyer for drafting an agreement. I was wondering if some of you have a great workflow for drafting legal agreements with AI that are good enough to have a lawyer just review it? My background is CS, so it's hard judge myself and I feel ChatGPT doesn't give enough details.

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PaulHoule•14h ago
Got to the public library and check out some books from Nolo Press.
tacostakohashi•13h ago
What's the workflow for going to the library though, and how goes ChatGPT integrate with it? Is there an MCP for Nolo Press?
PaulHoule•13h ago
(1) Get in my car, drive to the library, pay $1 an hour to park, find a contract in the book, type it in, edit, done

(2) Ask Nolo Press

bix6•14h ago
What type of agreement? You can sometimes find an example agreement online, modify it to your needs, then have a lawyer give it a final review.
philippb•10h ago
this case was a little bit of a one off. Created a convertible note for a piece of land that doesn't exist yet.
jus3sixty•14h ago
I have handled a few personal legal matters myself by drafting with Lex.page (a very useful tool for any writing but you can also accomplish about the same thing with Google Docs and Gemini.)

It’s also important to perfectly prompt the “AI” promptly to perfection. You have to tell it who it is, what it is doing and make sure to be specific about the scope and legal matters involved.

Break it down into smaller chunks and once you have a draft you like, send the draft to another “AI” and ask it to play as a lawyer on the other side of your equation and “rip apart” the draft letter you wrote like any good lawyer would.

Make your two “AI” models adversarial to each other until the final result is a rock solid document.

philippb•10h ago
thanks for the tip with two AI models. I've done that in writing coding specs. I already gave it a lot of detail about who it is. will give this a try.

Do you have an exit criteria that you can define for when the models stop picking on the other models solutions?

brudgers•13h ago
I just got an insane bill from a lawyer

The bigger the bill, the more dollars are in your 30% markup when you pass your costs to the client.

philippb•10h ago
It was for something personal... so I'm just having my bill for breakfast
treetalker•45m ago
Ah yes, vibe legal planning!

We lawyers have a saying: pay me now or pay me later.

Trying to handle your own legal affairs without a lawyer is a recipe for disaster. (Analogizing for the HN crowd: it's a bit like thinking you can invent your own cryptography library for essential software.) Even lawyers need lawyers! ("A lawyer who represents himself has an idiot for a client.")

I will look forward to the prospect of handling the inevitable litigation that arises from those of you drafting your own agreements — and, better yet, your appeals after you still don't learn your lesson and then try to represent yourselves in court too.

If it's important enough to put in writing, it's important enough to rely on competent legal counsel.

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